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Charter schools in most states continue to enroll proportionately fewer students with disabilities than traditional public schools, a new government report shows.

Two recent reports from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that charter schools enroll fewer students with disabilities than traditional public schools and that more study is needed to determine the extent to which current laws protect students from bullying at school.

On average, charter schools enroll fewer students with disabilities than traditional public schools and they have generally not invested adequate resources to develop exemplary programs for students with disabilities.

Charter schools enrolled a lower percentage of students with disabilities than traditional public schools, but little is known about the factors contributing to these differences.

Not exact matches

However, when compared to traditional public schools, a higher percentage of charter schools enrolled more than 20 percent of students with disabilities.

The following year, however, the city's Independent Budget Office released another report that overturned the previous report's findings, indicating that children with disabilities stayed at charter schools at a slightly higher rate than they did at traditional public schools.

However, in four states (Wyoming, Delaware, Missouri, and New Jersey) traditional public schools enroll at least five percent more students with disabilities than charter schools.

Our analysis makes key findings — such as that while charter schools consistently enroll fewer students with disabilities than do traditional public schools, charters also serve special education students in more inclusive settings than do those traditional schools.

When we consider any student identified as having a disability in kindergarten as a special needs student, these students remained at their charter schools through the 2012 - 2013 school year at a higher rate than similar students at nearby traditional public schools.

In both cities, charter elementary schools are much less likely than the traditional public schools to identify students as disabled, and students with identified disabilities are much less likely to apply to charter schools.

In fact, because charter schools have more flexibility than traditional public schools, they are designed to offer innovative educational strategies and provide individualized support to meet the needs of all students, including those with disabilities and other unique challenges.